Bag tying device



J. A. MANGOLD BAG TIEING DEVICE July 3, 195] Filed March 8, 1946 I INVENTOR JACOB A, MANGOLD ATTORNEY Patented July 3, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BAG TYIN G DEVICE Jacob A. Mangold, Lebanon, Oreg.

Application March 8, 1946, Serial No. 653,020

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to devices for tieing sacks and is particularly adapted for the tieing of large burlap sacks used in hop fields, and the like.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a permanent fixed tieing device on the top of the sack consisting of a short piece of rope secured to the sack by a clip at its one end and having knots tied adjacent its free end for engaging a hook when the string has been looped around the top of the sack in a tieing operation.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hook secured to the edge of the top of the sack for receiving the free end of a tieing rope which has been looped around. the sack.

These and other incidental objects will be apparent in the drawings, specifications and claim.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 shows a standard burlap sack having my new and improved tieing device secured thereto.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary enlarged view of the clip and hook, together with the portion of the tieing strings having been clipped along the seam of the upper part of the bag.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the hook and the clip removed from the bag.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view of the top of the bag having been tied, illustrating how the string is looped around the bag and being held by the hook of the device.

Figure 5 illustrates another preferred form for securing the hook to the bag wherein the clip has been eliminated.

In the drawings:

The burlap bag is indicated at having my new and improved tieing device clipped to the bag at 2. The device consists of a hook or loop 3 which is cast to shape or formed of wire or other stiff, slightly resilient but bendable ma terial and which is pivotally mounted in a bearing forming bend 4 in a clip 5. The clip 5 is formed of a rectangular piece of sheet material that is centrally bent upon itself to form the bearing forming bend 4 from which extends jaws 6 and I which are provided with inturned teeth 8 for gripping the burlap or sack material 9 therebetween, preferably along the seam it of the bag, giving the same greater strength and. providing for longer durability.

Holes I l are formed within the clip through which is passed the tieing rope 12, the cord or rope I2 locking the base of the hook 3 in the bend 4 of the clip 5. A knot 13 is tied to the loop and prevents the same from passing 2 through the holes II when the end [4 of the string is wrapped around the bag as best illustrated in Figure 4.

Figure 5 shows a modified form of hook wherein the hook I5 has a cross member [6 formed adjacent the bag IT. This cross member is looped back as at 58 with the return bend. looping over the member 6 at l9. To install the clip the members [8 and I8 are spread apart opening the clip so that the end 29 can be shoved through the bag at 2i and up through the bag at 22 and then clipped over the bend it at IS with a pair of pliers. The end of the rope 23 is also clipped between the members 16 and [8, at this time the clip is applied to the bag as above described. A knot 24 holds the rope from slipping through between the members l6 and it when its end 25 is wrapped around the bag.

I will now describe the operation of the tieing of the bag with my new and improved tieing device. The clip 5 is clamped to a fold in the side of a bag 9, the teeth 8 of the jaws 6 and l securely gripping the bag material therebetween. The end M of the rope I 2 is then wrapped. around the bag and inserted into the hook 3 so that the knot MA will be engaged by the hook. This provides a tieing device that is always in readiness for the tieing of bags and one wherein the tieing of the bag is made simple by simply wrapping the rope around the bag and entering it into the hook 3, the complete tieing operation is performed, all of this being accomplished without releasing the rope, therefore a good. tight bind is accomplished with the least amount of effort.

Referring to Figure 5 the hook I5 is shown slightly modified having a wedge shaped hook ISA for receiving the rope, causing the rope to wedge tighter within the hook as the pull is increased on the rope.

I do not wish to be limited to the exact mechanical structure as other mechanical equivalents may be substituted still coming within the scope of my claim.

What I claim as new is:

A bag tie comprising a hook-like element formed of one piece and including a straight portion having bends at each end, with one bend forming a terminus and the opposite bend extending over and substantially parallel with the straight portion and then bent outwardly and finally back upon itself to form a flat open hook that is substantially perpendicular to and centrally of said straight portion, a clip supporting 3 said hook-like element and consisting of a sin gle piece of sheet material bent centrally upon itself to provide two jaws and with the bend forming a bearing for the straight portion of the hook-like element, with the bends at the ends of said straight portion extending around the edges of the clip, inturned mating teeth on the free ends of said clip jaws for cooperatively securing said clip to a bag, coinciding apertures in said jaws adjacent the bend therebetween, and a cord anchored at one end through said said clip bend and extending from said clip to be tied around a bag and secured to said fiat open hook.

JACOB A. MANGOLD.

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